Does Big Tech actually care about fighting AI slop?
Progress towards reliable deepfake labelling tech is sluggish, despite all the “help” from AI providers. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images As 2025...
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How to Build and Deploy a Multi-Agent AI System with Python and Docker
You wake up and open your laptop. Your browser has 27 tabs open, your inbox is overflowing with unread newsletters, and meeting notes are scattered across...
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Since announcing earlier this year that it was on the cusp of a major battery breakthrough, Finnish startup Donut Lab has faced a lot of questions,...
Read moreAOC’s 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitor is down to $380
It’s tough not to gush about a 27-inch 1440p QD-OLED gaming monitor that costs under $400 (I’ve done it before!). AOC’s G-Sync-compatible model with a 240Hz...
Read moreAIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data
The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do...
Read moreSecurity updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel-rt and openssl), Debian (ca-certificates, chromium, gegl, glib2.0, libvpx, modsecurity-crs, nova, and pillow), Fedora (chromium, mingw-libpng, mupdf, python-pyasn1, python-PyMuPDF,...
Read moreThe Ladybird browser project shifts to Rust
The Ladybird browser project has announced a move to the Rust programming language: When we originally evaluated Rust back in 2024, we rejected it because it’s...
Read moreFreeBSD’s Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year
The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4’2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among...
Read moreHow Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway?
Automotive airbags are key safety devices that aim to reduce injuries and mortality in the event of motor vehicle accidents. These rapidly-inflating cushions act to soften...
Read more[$] Lessons on attracting new contributors from 30 years of PostgreSQL
The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing...
Read moreUforwarder: Uber’s Scalable Kafka Consumer Proxy for Efficient Event-Driven Microservices
Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing,...
Read moreBuild a dinosaur runner game with Deno, pt. 6
Add structured logging, distributed traces, and game analytics to your Deno game and learn how to use Deno Deploy’s built-in logs, traces, and metrics dashboards.
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